News spread like wildfire that Apple is killing off pro photo software Aperture, but a handful of new software updates today appears to show a renewed commitment to the Cupertino company's pro video apps.

Apple released updates to Final Cut Pro X, Compressor 4, and Motion 5 on Friday, along with a companion ProApps Codecs path that adds support for ProRes 4444 XQ, which offers even higher quality compression for video editing professionals.

In addition to ProRes 4444 XQ support, Final Cut Pro X 10.1.2 allows optimized, proxy, and rendered media to be stored anywhere outside of a user's library and deleted from within the host software. A new used-media indicator also offers an easy way to see which compound clips, multicam clips, and synced clips are already in use, or which media in the Browser has yet to be used.

The Final Cut update also improves on speed and accuracy while synchronizing clips, adds audio-recording improvements including countdown and automatic Audition creation from multiple takes, and introduces the ability to export an entire library as a single XML file.

Companion apps Compressor 4.1.2 and Motion 5.1.1 also received updates Friday, adding status display and improved responsiveness when using Send to Compressor from Final Cut Pro X for the former, and improved Sequence Text behavior for animating characters, words, and lines for the latter.

Along with ProApps Codecs 1.0.5, all four updates are now available for download from the Mac App Store's Software Updates tab, and are free for existing users.